This book explores the realities and potentialities of museums as spaces and agents of social care. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including professional insights, this book explores the social function of the museum....Lasīt vairāk

Indigenous Museology examines the emergence of indigenising museologies in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Canada. As the first international comparative study of museums and indigenous people, the book produces new knowledge abo...Lasīt vairāk

This book engages the shortcomings of the field of international heritage law, arguing that the five major UNESCO treaties have effectively prevented local communities from having a say in how their heritage is managed....Lasīt vairāk

Tells the story of a man whose passion for learning led to remarkable discoveries, extraordinary exhibits, and the prestigious careers of many students he mentored in the natural sciences....Lasīt vairāk

Tells the story of a man whose passion for learning led to remarkable discoveries, extraordinary exhibits, and the prestigious careers of many students he mentored in the natural sciences....Lasīt vairāk

This book is the culmination of significant multi-disciplinary work carried out by a variety of specialists, from conservators to woodworking and boatbuilding experts, exploring the history of the Poole Iron Age logboat (today imposingly displa...Lasīt vairāk

This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological origin and then describing the nature of granites, volcanics, limestones, sandstones, flint, metamorphic stones, brec...Lasīt vairāk

This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with Minimalist discourse, as well as their often over...Lasīt vairāk

The Explicit Material focuses on objects as complex constructs of material relations, and points to the increased blurring of boundaries between practices of conservation and curation, thereby announcing a shift in sensibilities and understand...Lasīt vairāk

Curatorial Activism builds on Social Movement Studies (the sociology of political reform movements) to build and examine theoretical propositions around the tactics of Curatorial Activism and Contemporary Museology. Case-study focused, it in...Lasīt vairāk

How to Get a Museum Job discusses ways people can seek and apply for the full range of positions found in most museums. It is based on the author’s experience in hiring and being hired within what c...Lasīt vairāk

How to Get a Museum Job discusses ways people can seek and apply for the full range of positions found in most museums. It is based on the authors experience in hiring and being hired within what can be a mysterious and even esoteric world....Lasīt vairāk

Although there has been, in recent times, a widespread interest in preservation and promotion of Indigenous Heritage or Knowledge Systems from a variety of disciplines and sectors, from across the globe - the design principles or modalities of...Lasīt vairāk

The Dignity of Heritage makes a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or established canon of cultural heritage texts. Jacques Derridas rallying call to restore heritage to d...Lasīt vairāk

The Dignity of Heritage makes a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or established canon of cultural heritage texts. Jacques Derridas rallying call to restore heritage to d...Lasīt vairāk

Representing national culture is embedded within our museum and heritage practice. Yet, what underpins nation or culture is often occluded in interpretation and other representational practices associated with visitor engagement and tourism. Y...Lasīt vairāk